Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 1
At the end of a village on the verge of the steppe dwelt two brothers, one rich and the other poor.
What happens: dwell · To what, where: two brothers, end
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dwelt | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 verge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 verge | det |
| 9 | verge | verge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 village | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 steppe | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 steppe | det |
| 12 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 verge | nmod |
| 13 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 brothers | nummod |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dwelt | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rich | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 rich | nummod |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brothers | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 poor | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 poor | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 poor | amod |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rich | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | two brothers | at the end of a village on the verge of the steppe | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brother=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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